Re: "Free point" is a misnomer

[Dylan Paul Thurston <dpt@math.berkeley.edu>]

On Sat, Feb 26, 2000 at 08:29:46AM +0800, Hilaire Fernandes wrote:
> Dylan Paul Thurston writes:
>  > It seems to me that the Dr. Geo menu item, "Free Point", is a bad
>  > misnomer: this same menu item can be used to construct either free
>  > points or constrained points, so the menu item should simply be
>  > called "Point".  I spent quite a while confused and frustrated by
>  > this...
> 
> Point constructed from this menu are all free point on a "zone" : free
> point on a plane, a line, a segment, etc.

I can see what you mean, but that isn't what "free point" meant to me
when I first saw it.  Again, it confused me terribly.  What about
seperating out the two functions?

--Dylan